19TH CENTURY INCORPORATING 17TH CENTURY ELEMENTS

This table is closely related to a table in the Michael Friedsam in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This table was probably made in the Île-de-France area in circa. 1550-1570 and was in the Charbrère-Arlès Collection until at least 1877, when it was shown at the "Exposition Rétrospective" in Lyon. (W. Koeppe, 'French Renaissance and Pseudo-Renaissance Furniture in American Collections' in Decorative Arts, (The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts), 2(1994))

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